CVE-2010-1437

Severity :

Low

Published :

2010-05-07

Modified :

2012-03-19

Base Score :

1.9

Details :

Race condition in the find_keyring_by_name function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.34-rc5 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl session commands that trigger access to a dead keyring that is undergoing deletion by the key_cleanup function.